The NLP Workbook: A Practical Guide to Achieving Results
Join us as we dive into the core concepts of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), drawing on the comprehensive "NLP Workbook" by Joseph O'Connor.
NLP is described as a practical guide to achieving the results you want, studying brilliance and quality through a process called 'modelling'.
Highlights:
- Understanding NLP: NLP links Neuro (the mind and how we think), Linguistic (how we use language), and Programming (how we sequence actions to achieve goals).
- Core Principles: We review the six basic principles of NLP, often called the pillars, including rapport (the quality of relationship based on trust and responsiveness) and outcome thinking (knowing what you want).
- Sensory Processing: Learn about the five senses NLP is based upon: Visual (V), Auditory (A), Kinesthetic (K), Olfactory (O), and Gustatory (G). These senses contribute to our understanding of the world. We also explore 'accessing cues' like eye movements and voice tone that indicate a person's thinking process.
- Emotional Change through Anchors: Discover how anchors—visual, auditory, or kinesthetic triggers—can become associated with a particular emotional state. Techniques such as chaining, stacking, and collapsing anchors are used to manage and change emotional states.
- The Meta Model: This model explores how language can delete, distort, and generalize information from our deep sensory experience (deep structure) to what we actually say (surface structure). Questioning these patterns can help gather information, clarify meaning, and challenge assumptions.
- Strategies and the TOTE Pattern: NLP treats a strategy as a sequence of mental representations leading to an outcome. The basic strategy pattern is the TOTE (Test – Operate – Test – Exit), which ensures that behaviour is purposeful and is adjusted via feedback until the desired state is reached.
Ultimately, this work is about self-development and change, showing you how to create your own reality.
